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McHenry Back Pain Relief with Paraspinal Muscle Health

Paraspinal muscles? Where are they? These muscles align the spine. They hold up the spine and allow it to move. And their health counts. Their health contributes to your posture, your back pain condition, and your ability to move your spine as you need and want.  OrthoIllinois Chiropractic proposes exercises as part of the chiropractic treatment plan to strengthen and maintain the strength of these important paraspinal muscles in the control of McHenry back pain and relief of back pain.

HOW DOES EXERCISE HELP PARASPINAL MUSCLES IN BACK PAIN?

The paraspinal muscles of the back are the action muscles of the spine. They surround your whole spine. They reposition your spine. Also known as the erector spinae, paraspinal muscles allow you to lean, bend, twist, and arch your back. Their ability to do what they do is linked to the health of their neighboring tissues. A recent study documented that damage to the spine’s vertebral bones’ endplates plays a role in chronic low back pain. Endplate damage and chronic low back pain patients’ symptoms are described as depending on paraspinal muscle quality. Attempts to strengthen the paraspinal muscles can be beneficial. (1) Sometimes finding the right exercise for you is key.

EXERCISE CAN HELP PARASPINAL MUSCLES FOR MOST McHenry BACK PAIN SUFFERERS

Exercise is recommended to address two issues affecting McHenry low back pain: fatty infiltration of muscles and muscle weakness. In another new study, high-intensity exercise didn’t change these two issues for all participants. However, for those who did display improvement in fat content and weakness, functional improvement followed. (2) At least most of us can exercise to help our backs’ paraspinal muscles.  Astronauts can’t! Their paraspinal and quadratus lumborum muscles were still poor 2 to 4 years after their space flight. Researchers reason that these changes added to the back pain astronauts experience. (3) McHenry does not have many astronauts in its population, so OrthoIllinois Chiropractic will help you determine the proper form of exercise – be it high intensity or other type of exercise – for your best improvement of McHenry back pain.  

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Hamisi Kote Ali on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson who presents how treatment of paraspinal muscles via fascia manipulation goes hand-in-hand with spinal manipulation treatment utilizing gentle Cox® Technic to manage spine-related pain.

Schedule a McHenry chiropractic appointment with OrthoIllinois Chiropractic today. Together, we will establish the strength or lack thereof of your paraspinal muscles, your erector spinae muscles, and plan the specific exercises to strengthen them for your spine’s optimal alignment and movement.

OrthoIllinois Chiropractic explains the importance of paraspinal muscles and their strength for McHenry back pain relief.

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